CVE-2000-0887: ISC BIND

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 22.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

named in BIND 8.2 through 8.2.2-P6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by making a compressed zone transfer (ZXFR) request and performing a name service query on an authoritative record that is not cached, aka the "zxfr bug."

Affected products

• ISC BIND: version 8.2.2 only

Published 2000-12-19. Last modified 2026-09-23.